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A	–Trevor Wishart & Friends	Beach Singularity Clarinet – Robin Coombes Horns, Vocals, Producer [Tape] – Martin MayesOrchestra – The Palm Beach OrchestraPercussion, Vocals – Dick WittsProducer [Tape] – Richard ColdmanSaxophone – Lyn RobsonTape, Performer, Vocals, Producer [Tape] – Trevor WishartTuba – Melvyn PooreVocals – Poppy Holden	20:56
–Trevor Wishart	Menagerie
B1	–	Musical Box	2:18
B2	–	Vision Featuring [Sound Source] – Trevor Wishart	2:39
B3	–	Still Life Featuring [Sound Source] – Michael Banks	4:36
B4	–	Aqualung Featuring [Sound Source] – Keith James	5:24
B5	–	Spam Guitar Featuring [Sound Source] – Roland Miller	2:37
B6	–	Dreamer Featuring [Sound Source] – Peter Coleman	4:43

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• Produced At – University Of York Electronic Music Studios

Notes

Beach Singularity was performed on the beaches at Morecambe, Cleveleys, St Anne's & Southport in the summer of 1977. Beach Singularity is an excerpt from a day long happening in which the composer performed with an ensemble that featured saxophonist Lyn Dobson avant-tuba player Melvyn Poore, vocalist Poppy Holden and clarinet improviser Robin Coombes. This performance was designed somewhat like a social intervention, where the musicians performed in conjunction with tape-music and electronics broadcast from small portable stereo systems scattered along the English sea-side.

Menagerie began life in 1974 when Trevor Wishart asked a number of well known British performance artistis to build small assemblages for an exhibition in which each object would be accompanied by appropriate taped sounds. The exhibition, consisting of eleven assemblages, was first prepared for the Birmingham Arts Lab and presented there in January 1975. The accompanying tapes were all made at The University of York Electronic Music Studio by Trevor Wishart.

Comes with 4-page A4 booklet.
Reissued by Paradigm in 1997 (PD 03).

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
PD 03	Trevor Wishart & Friends	Menagerie / Beach Singularity / Vocalise ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Paradigm Discs	PD 03	UK	1997

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